Product Description: This title examines an important historic event – the Chernobyl disaster. Easy-to-read, compelling text explores the background of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, events leading up to the disaster, responses to the accident, key people involved, and the short-term and long-term effects of the incident on society and the environment...read more

Describes the worst nuclear accident in history and highlights the dangers of radioactive material and nuclear waste.

Describes the events of what scientists accept as the worst nuclear disaster in history, with emphasis on the environmental effects on the immediate area and the world.

Discusses the disastrous 1986 accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in the Ukraine.

Discusses the uses of radioactive substances and the dangers they present, including fallout from nuclear weapons testing, the meltdown at the Chernobyl power plant, and uranium mining accidents.

Product Description: On April 26, 1986, a huge explosion tore apart the Number 4 reactor at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in the Soviet Union. As workers and firefighters struggled heroically to bring the blaze at the plant under control, the Soviet government issued publi (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Examines nuclear power and the causes, effects, and clean-up of nuclear disasters.

Describes the incidents and possible causes connected with such nuclear accidents as Chernobyl, Windscale, and Three Mile Island.

The 1986 explosion at the nuclear power plant at Chernobyl was a human as well as environmental catastrophe, and this thorough account of the accident examines its causes, the response of the Soviet government, and the tragic aftermath of a horror that still lives on.

Follows the heroic actions of a Soviet firefighter as he describes the disastrous nuclear plant accident at Chernobyl.

Examines the Chernobyl nuclear accident in its historical, cultural, political, and human contexts